Liz Lerman
| Liz Lerman | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 1947 |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | choreographer |
| Movement | Dance Exchange |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellows Program |
Liz Lerman (born 1947) is an American choreographer and founder of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.[1][2][3]
The company has appeared at the National Cathedral,[4] Kennedy Center Opera House,[5] and Millennium Stage,[6] Lansburgh Theater,[7] Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,[7][8] Harvard University,[9] and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.[10][11]
Career
Liz Lerman joined the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. January 2016 in a unique position as Institute Professor to lead programs and courses that span disciplines across ASU. [12]
In July 2011, Lerman passed the leadership of her company to Cassie Meador,[13] and the company is now called simply Dance Exchange.[14] [15]
That fall, Lerman spent the semester at Harvard as a Visiting Lecturer.[16] Wesleyan University Press also published Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, Lerman's collection of essays, in 2011.[17]
Awards
- 2014 Dance/USA Honor Award
- 2011 United States Artists Fellow [18]
- 2002 MacArthur Fellows Program
- American Choreographer Award
- American Jewish Congress "Golda" Award
- 1988 Washingtonian of the Year, by Washingtonian magazine
References
- ↑ http://www.danceexchange.org/whoweare.html#staffandco
- ↑ http://www.danceexchange.org/whoweare.html
- ↑ "Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.(Lansburgh Theater, Washington DC)". The Kenyon Review. January 1, 2006.
- ↑ http://www.nationalcathedral.org/staff/PE-49EKF-58001D.shtml
- ↑ Jackson, George (December 8, 1993). "Liz Lerman, on the move".
- ↑ http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/artist_detail.cfm?artist_id=lizlerdanc
- 1 2 http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2098
- ↑ Traiger, Lisa (October 27, 2006). "Liz Lerman: Looking Ahead, Looking Back".
- ↑ http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1639
- ↑ "Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: Ferocious Beauty: Genome". Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Retrieved 2011-07-29.
- ↑ http://mcachicago.org/performances/now/all/2011/741
- ↑ Dance Exchange founder and MacArthur fellow to teach, launch Ensemble Lab (January 7, 2016). "Dance legend Liz Lerman to join ASU, Dance Exchange founder and MacArthur fellow to teach, launch Ensemble Lab". ASU News Now.
- ↑ "The Dance Exchange Ponders Life After Liz Lerman - Arts Desk". Washington City Paper.
- ↑ Sarah Kaufman (January 24, 2011). "Liz Lerman set to move on from her namesake dance company". The Washington Post.
- ↑ Mary Carole McCauley (January 24, 2011). "Liz Lerman to leave dance troupe in July". The Baltimore Sun.
- ↑ Corydon Ireland (December 15, 2011). "Adding art to academics". Harvard Crimson.
- ↑ Liz Lerman. "About Liz Lerman".
- ↑ "United States Artists". United States Artists.
External links
- Template:Oficial
- Dance Exchange website
- Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Archives - Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland
- "Toward a Process for Critical Response", Community Arts Network
- "Assessing the future of modern dance, a fragile American art form", Washington Post, Sarah Kaufman, April 4, 2010
- Archive film of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange performing Hallelujah: In Praise of Fertile Fields in 2000 at Jacob's Pillow
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